Acronis Snap Deploy, available for servers, workstations or both is a comprehensive deployment solution that enables IT organisations to deploy or restore disk images quickly and easily. Using Acronis' award-winning disk imaging technology, Acronis Snap Deploy creates an exact disk image of the standard configuration, including the operating system, configuration files and all applications. It then deploys that image to multiple systems simultaneously, making it ideal for rapid bare-metal installations. It is also possible to restore to dissimilar hardware using Acronis Universal Deploy (requires separate purchase).

Better hardware support - add drivers to WinPE media to ensure compatibility with new hardware

New Deployment Licence option - a new Deployment Licence option is cost-effective and allows one deploy operation to a PC or a server.

Top Features

High-Performance Dispatch

From a central administration point, you can deploy a master image ¿ including Operating System and applications ¿ to multiple PCs or servers across your network simultaneously, via multicast or unicast. It¿s fast and easy.

Hardware Versatility

If you need to deploy your image to PCs with different hardware architectures, no problem. Acronis Universal Deploy 4 ensures that your new systems boot up correctly even if they¿re running on dissimilar hardware.

You can assign individual settings to each PC or server to ensure they all receive an appropriately tailored configuration. The new list of machines allows monitoring of progress and status, as well as pre-configuration of new machines identified by their MAC address.

Post-Deployment Customisation

As soon as you finish a deployment, Acronis Snap Deploy 4 allows you to easily modify Windows settings, such as computer name, IP configuration or SID, in order to offer your end-users optimal customisation and ensure unique names on your network.

Boot Up on Your Own Terms

To be ready for deployment, you can boot your machines from customisable media such as CD, DVD, flash drive, or from Acronis PXE Server with network boot. Acronis Snap Deploy 4 lets you choose between both Linux and WinPE bootable environments. And it allows you to add necessary drivers to WinPE media to ensure it works on your new hardware.

Deployment Options

Acronis Snap Deploy 4 offers you several deployment modes to suit every need, all managed from a remote centralised-management console.

Manual or automatic deployment can be started manually or performed automatically when a specified number of machines are ready.

User-initiated deployment lets users trigger image distribution to their own systems by themselves.

Scheduled deployment distributes or redistributes the master image at a specific point in time. This is especially usefully when you want to reimage a machine during fixed maintenance hours, like every night or over the weekend.

For each deployment, you can benefit from various options:

Deployment templates. Deployment settings are saved, so you can reuse them for other tasks.

Multicast and unicast. Choose multicast to reduce network traffic and save time by deploying images to multiple machines simultaneously. Or unicast to reduce the load on your network and minimise compatibility issues with network equipment.

Wake-on-LAN (WoL) and WoL Proxy. These standards allow you to automatically power on machines remotely. WoL proxy is included to ensure that WoL works across network segment boundaries.

Compression and splitting. You can compress your master image to save disk space, or split it into multiple volumes to fit on CDs or DVDs.

Password protection. You can protect your master image with a password to prevent unauthorised deployment. You can also set a password for booting into Acronis Snap Deploy 4 bootable environment to make sure users don¿t accidentally access it on their own.

Disk resizing. Even if the disk on a target machine is larger or smaller compared to the master machine, Acronis Snap Deploy 4 can resize it to occupy all of the target machine¿s disk capacity to ensure efficient usage of the available disk space.

Command line and scripting. Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Command-Line Utility is included in a WinPE bootable media and can be used to perform imaging or deployment in the command-line mode or to execute scripts.

Configuration management. After deployment completes, multiple parameters such as name and domain membership of the target machine may be changed to ensure that the machine is properly configured.

Configuration management

With Acronis Snap Deploy 4, you can count on effective configuration-management tools to perform post-deployment tasks that simplify deployment and ongoing maintenance of your Windows systems.